Webchat Troubleshooting

PonyChat offers a webchat client using LightIRC.
For most people this will work fine. This page will help address the most
common issues with LightIRC.

LightIRC Shows “Get Flash Player”

LightIRC uses Flash to make a direct connection from your machine to PonyChat’s
servers. A common issue is it showing “Get Flash Player” and will look
something like this:

There are two fixes to this:

Install Adobe Flash Player

Use KiwiIRC or Mibbit

Install Adobe Flash Player

Click on the “get flash player” image.

You will get to a page that looks like this:

Click on Install and then follow the further directions. Restart your browser
and you should be good to go!

Use KiwiIRC or Mibbit

On the bottom of the page, we have a selection bar for other clients. At the
time of this writing, we also support KiwiIRC and
Mibbit HTML webchats.

KiwiIRC

Click on the KiwiIRC link and you should be shown a screen that looks like
this:

Choose a nickname and a channel to join, then hit start.

Mibbit

Click on the Mibbit link and you should be shown a screen that looks like this:

Choose a nickname and hit connect.

LightIRC shows Error 2030

LightIRC cannot make a connection to port 8430 on PonyChat’s servers. LightIRC
does this so it can make sure it has permission to connect to PonyChat. If you
get this error please refresh the page. If it persists please try another one
of our webchat options.

If the above article is not enough to solve your problem, please email us at
staff@ponychat.net so that we can help you further.

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